Genre Mash: Fantasy x Historical Fiction

Updated April 9, 2026
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All the crooked saints
Stiefvater, Maggie
Paper Book
From bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater, a gripping tale of darkness, miracles, and family.Here is a thing everyone wants: A miracle.Here is a thing everyone fears:What it takes to get one.Any visitor to Bicho Raro, Colorado, is likely to find a landscape of dark saints, forbidden love, scientific...
The buried giant
Ishiguro, Kazuo
Paper Book
From the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day   The Romans have long since departed and Britain is steadily declining into ruin. But, at least, the wars that once ravaged the country have ceased. Axl...
The city beautiful
Polydoros, Aden
Paper Book
Winner of the 2022 Sydney Taylor Book Award for Young Adult 2022 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel finalist 2021 National Jewish Book Award finalist A Lambda Literary Award finalist 2021 Bram Stoker Award Preliminary Ballot for Young Adult Novels...
The Diviners
Bray, Libba
Paper Book
A young woman discovers her mysterious powers could help catch a killer in the first book of The Diviners series--a stunning supernatural historical mystery set in 1920s New York City, from Printz Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Libba Bray. Evangeline O...
The familiar
Bardugo, Leigh
Paper Book
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * #1 INDIE BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An immersive, sensual experience." --The New York Times "Essential." --The Washington Post GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FINALIST * A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR:...
Foul Lady Fortune
Gong, Chloe
Paper Book
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights and Our Violent Ends comes the "equal parts intoxicating and dazzling" (Roshani Chokshi, New York Times bestselling author of The Gilded Wolves) first book in a captivating new duology...
The Glass Town game
Valente, Catherynne M
Paper Book
A Parents' Choice Gold Award Winner "Dazzling." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) Charlotte and Emily Brontë enter a fantasy world that they invented in order to rescue their siblings in this "lovely, fanciful" (Booklist, starred review)...
The historian
Kostova, Elizabeth
Paper Book
To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history....Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor," and they plunge her into a world she never dreamed of-a...
The immortalists
Benjamin, Chloe
Paper Book
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Washington Post * NPR * Entertainment Weekly * Real Simple * Marie Claire * New York Public Library * <...
The improvisers
Glover, Nicole
Paper Book
For fans of Nghi Vo, P. Djèlí Clark, and Alix E. Harrow: a new stand-alone set in the world of the critically acclaimed Murder and Magic series during Prohibition. The Improvisers is the tale of Velma, a barnstorming pilot and former magic bootlegger, who pursues dangerous enchanted...
The inquisitor's tale, or, The three magical children and their holy dog
Gidwitz, Adam
Paper Book
A Newbery Honor Book Winner of the Sydney Taylor Book Award An exciting and hilarious medieval adventure from the bestselling author of A Tale Dark and Grimm. Beautifully illustrated throughout by Hatem Aly! "A profound and ambitious tour de force....
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Clarke, Susanna.
Paper Book
In the Hugo-award winning, epic New York Times Bestseller and basis for the BBC miniseries, two men change England's history when they bring magic back into the world. In the midst of the Napoleonic Wars in 1806, most people believe magic to have long since disappeared...
The magician's daughter
Parry, H. G.
Paper Book
"That most rare and precious thing: a brand-new classic, both wholly original and wonderfully nostalgic."  --Alix E. Harrow, New York Times bestselling author In the early 1900s, a young woman is caught between two worlds in H. G. Parry's ...
Nicked
Anderson, M. T.
Paper Book
AN NPR NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR * From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous, slyly funny, and delightfully queer work of historical fantasy, based on a bizarre but true quest to steal the mystical corpse of a long-dead saint "[An] ...
Outlander
Gabaldon, Diana.
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The first book in Diana Gabaldon's acclaimed Outlander saga, the basis for the Starz original series--season 8 coming in March 2026! One of the top ten best-loved novels in America, as seen on PBS's The Great American Read!
She who became the sun
Parker-Chan, Shelley
Paper Book
Two-time British Fantasy Award Winner Astounding Award Winner Lambda Literary Award Finalist Hugo Award Finalist Locus Award Finalist A Dragon Award Finalist Otherwise Award Finalist "I loved it."--The New...
Sisters of the lost marsh
Strange, Lucy
Paper Book
"One finds countless top-notch writers strutting the streets, but there's no better author wandering the moors nowadays than Strange." -- Lemony Snicket, New York Times Book Review Awarded the 2024 Odyssey Honor! From award winning author Lucy Strange comes a...
That self-same metal
Williams, Brittany N
Paper Book
This stunning YA fantasy debut "seamlessly weaves together history, fantasy, culture, magic, and love" (New York Times bestselling author Daniel José Older) and is perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Holly Black, and Justina Ireland. The Forge & Fracture Saga...
Weyward
Hart, Emilia
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * USA TODAY BESTSELLER WINNER OF TWO GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS (Best Debut Novel & Best Historical Fiction) An Indie Next March 2023 Pick * A LibraryReads March 2023 Pick * An Amazon "Best Books...
What the river knows
Iban?ez, Isabel
Paper Book
The Mummy meets Death on the Nile in What the River Knows, Isabel Ibañez's lush, immersive historical fantasy set in Egypt and filled with adventure, a rivals-to-lovers romance, and a dangerous race. Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera...
Wrath becomes her
Polydoros, Aden
Paper Book
2024 Sydney Taylor Book Award Young Adult Honor  "Haunting, exhilarating, and a howl of vengeance." --Andrew Joseph White, New York Times bestselling author of Hell Followed With Us Frankenstein meets Inglourious Basterds in this stunning...

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